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Fans with posters wait for the Beatles to arrive at the Garden |
Beatles? They’re
‘Gear’ Man
August 27, 1964
Cincinnati (AP) – Four mop-topped lads from Liverpool headed
into Cincinnati today and, to use a teen-age phrase, this metropolitan area
faced a frantic and “fantabulous” time.
“They’re ‘gear’ man,” (“the moistest”)—sighed 14 year old
Karol Burgess, squealed in delight at the hardly expected acquisition of two
tickets to tonight’s show by the Beatles before a capacity 13,000 others in
Cincinnati Gardens.
Karol had proved pretty “gear” herself by appealing, in a
newspaper want ad, for the prized pasteboards.
She got them from Kathy Reid, 13, who had decided, after reading of
near-riots at the scene of Beatle concerts, that discretion was the better part
of valor and so, to remain at home.
“Fantabulous” was Kathy’s word for the four English youths
who, here for the third stop on their American tour, have marched rough-shod in
four-four time into the consciousness and languages of teenagers, if not always
those of their parents.
Some 100 policemen were ordered to duty around Cincinnati
Gardens, some to report hours before the 8pm opening; approximately 40 others
were assigned to their uptown hotel and another 100 private guards were
employed by a group of local disc jockey who are sponsoring the show.
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